From Bangalore to the Bay

​Going to the US is not one decision. It's six, and most founders collapse them into one leap.

​First revenue. A US entity. Banking and billing. First hire. Founder relocation. The flip. Get the sequencing wrong and you're either burning cash on an empty Delaware C-corp before product-market fit, or losing enterprise deals because procurement won't onboard a foreign entity.

​This is an operator session, not a panel about ambition, but about the line-item reality of crossing over.

​Shashank Bijapur (Co-Founder & CEO, SpotDraft) built from Bengaluru and went all the way in: entity, flip, relocation, $100M+ raised, US enterprise customers.
Kanishka Thakur (Co-Founder & CEO, Nudge) moved to the US from near day one and built GTM from New York. They disagree usefully on how much you actually need. Varun Kashyap (Partnerships, Aspire) moderates and keeps it anchored to banking, cash flow, and the signals that tell you when lean stops working.

​Three acts: the decision and its real triggers, the setup and what it actually costs, and what quietly breaks in year one across two time zones.

​45 min panel · 15 min Q&A · In-person only · 50 founders

​Invite-only. For founders building from India for the US, planning the move, mid-move, or already living the time-zone tax.